NC man told FBI that Antifa lured him into the Capitol on Jan. 6. A judge didn't buy it [View all]
A federal judge in Washington sentenced an N.C. truck driver to jail and a long probation on Monday — not only for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol but to keep the Catawba County man from joining “another riot” after the next presidential election.
James “Les” Little, of Claremont, will spend 60 days in custody and serve three years of supervised release after pleading guilty in November to a misdemeanor charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
While Little was peaceful, many around him were not. As many as seven deaths have been linked to the violence, 140 police officers were injured and than $1 million in damages to the Capitol occurred.
Little’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Peter Adolf of Charlotte, told Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that while his client had entered the Capitol, he had not taken part in the violence or destroyed any property.
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(Raleigh News & Observer)
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